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techcrunch stealth-deleted the 'fuck off' parts of the wang op-ed, no 'correction' issued. yesterday vs today.
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"We need to spend at least 5% of our budget on capabilities that will terrify our adversaries" — Palantir CTO
@ssankar
on how the DoD should leverage AI in the Senate Committee hearing on AI this morning.🤘🤘🤘
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ben's support for trump is not a mystery at all. in a 90-minute podcast, now with 122,000 views on youtube, he and
@pmarca
meticulously dissected harris' and trump's likely positions on AI, crypto, and tax structure related to startup formation, and determined (begrudgingly, on
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the tech crunch author wrote it like that because him and 3-4 other tc employees have the most toxic slack dm in the company. they egged him on, everyone thought it was a hilarious dunk, and - briefly - the group clocked a w.
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asked dalle 3 for a martian colony citizen in the style of caravaggio
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hendrycks went from denying conflict of interest and dodging questions about if gray swan will work with clients on ai safety compliance, to admitting conflict of interest, admitting gray swan *does* have something to gain, and trying to move the goal posts by saying those who
it's good that the ai safety people are admitting their conflict of interest now. i was disappointed yesterday when they tried to community note our work on grounds they didn't like our perspective, which is obviously well grounded, and they clearly all agree with.
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just tried to listen to the destiny spaces, where he's presumably debating someone about djt, and had the distinct experience of suddenly finding the content so tedious as to reflexively ask myself what am i doing? why am i listening to this? why do i care about this random
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@micsolana
how dare you trivialize the incredibly complex and sophisticated blind ways of knowing that the differently-seeing have been practicing for millennia. assuming the blind would prefer to see is literal blind erasure. bigot
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this piece is way too generous to wiener, ai safetyists and effective altruists. wiener worked with EAs and EAs only on 1047. since then, he's since done nothing but double down in the face of widespread criticism from multiple different camps of his own constituents, including
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i'm glad ubi is getting a rigorous takedown. being a chronically unproductive ward of the state is psychologically disastrous and a society full of them would be a nightmare. my take in today's
@PirateWires
Daily 👇
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we have a choice between sanitized information environments with top-down moderation, or chaotic information environments moderated by decentralized efforts like community notes, and it's totally obvious which one trusts and respects people more
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i'm on mushrooms now, more than usual. people aren't ready for what i'm about to tweet.
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Read my full recap of this morning's Senate committee on AI here:
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this guy ron karenga created kwanzaa in the late 60s specifically to replace christmas because he hated jews and white people. over the following decade he was convicted of torturing women with a soldering iron and forcing them to drink laundry detergent, wrote a book calling for
Abolish Kwanzaa
how a holiday created by a LAPD-armed black nationalist and convicted torturer who advocated the genocide of all white people became mainstream, by River Page (
@river_is_nice
)
From December 26th to January 1st of each year, some small percent of Americans
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new reporting: while dan hendrycks, an executive at the center for ai safety, was helping scott weiner draft california's ai bill, a company he cofounded called gray swan — where he's chief strategy advisor — was working on a product that seems designed to provide the data for
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Kind of wild: We should “ensure strong export controls of leading edge AI chips and equipment, while licensing benign uses of chips that can be *remotely throttled as needed*” said Rand CEO
@JasonGMatheny
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On the open letter, Sen. Rounds said "I think the greater risk... is taking a pause while our competitors leap ahead of us in this field... I don't believe that now is the time for the US to take a break." Literally everyone agreed.
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in the name of protecting consumers, elizabeth warren recklessly publicized criminal allegations about silvergate bank's association with ftx, targeting the bank because it serviced crypto clients.
though these criminal allegations have never been proven (even despite a
As the crypto sector imploded in December 2022, Silvergate — a financial entity specializing in crypto — experienced a dramatic run on the bank. By March of the following year, company leadership announced it would voluntarily liquidate, marking the downfall of one of the biggest
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sf is already basically running a reparations pilot program —
as san francisco faces a police shortage, officials are talking about raising taxes. but in 2020, the same officials defunded SFPD and spent the money on an initiative “to ensure black joy.” what followed was waste on a massive scale. my latest:
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unsubstantiated fear of ai x-risk fuels scott wiener's sb 1047, which was basically written by effective altruists and people associated with open philantropy. the bill's kill switch provision will heavily discourage open source ai development and its criminal penalties will make
Sen.
@Scott_Wiener
has said only “the loudest voices” oppose California's AI bill, SB 1047. But in an April thread defending his bill, he cited support from just two startups, one of which is based outside California, while a letter in opposition to the bill circulated by Y
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>> "what follows is a missing chapter of internet history that sheds light not only Twitter/X, but the past five years of censorship and backlash. Because of vulnerabilities designed into the technology, social media, in its current, centralized form, can’t survive the global war
In an exclusive Pirate Wires interview, Jack predicts there’s "absolutely no way" social media companies will remain resistant to state censorship without open protocols.
"You can take content down within the country, but it’s still available to the rest of the world. But if
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tldr on the
@pmarca
and
@benhorowitz
piece is you should hate them because they're voting for their interests, instead of in solidarity with dems. but after trump's win, literal books were written explaining it away as republicans misguidedly voting against their own interests.
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This article completely ignores La Sombrita
Florida Has High Speed Rail and California Never Will
the high speed brightline train now connects miami and orlando, but california still has not laid a single mile of rail. what's the difference between these two projects?
by
@river_is_nice
In 2008, California voters
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@DanHendrycks
@PirateWires
are you saying gray swan will never work with other AI companies to navigate regulatory compliance?
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in 2020, san francisco defunded its police department of $120 million to fund a racial equity program called the dream keeper initiative — here's how the money was spent
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feel like there should be a controversial research institute. genomics and social traits, synthetic biology, extreme performance enhancement, mind control, etc. fund it with billions, publish it all to public domain, let it rip.
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ai's role in misinformation is to be a scapegoat for outcomes the left fears, and nothing more. as long as they overlook solutions that buff against state censorship and neutralize partisan lean while blaming AI instead, it's impossible to take them seriously on this issue.
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san francisco's african-american arts and culture complex, recently funded by taxpayers to the tune of $3m, is giving out "quick grants" of up to $2,000 for “therapy, massage, spa treatments, space reset or declutter,” or any “other programs or services... that the awardee deems
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sf's homeless policy is get high until you die
A host of San Francisco non-profits and city departments offer a bevy of services and programs to homeless transplants, including:
• Free tents
• DoorDash-style delivery for drug paraphernalia
• Pet food delivery
• Lawsuits against the city for clearing encampments
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@johncoogan
idt you missed anything but it's worth noting that spacex and blue origin are each around 20 years old and one currently delivers more orbital payload annually than ROW combined and the other has not even attempted to do that, once 🤷♂️
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Just for context op is a french guy with an herbal supplements business currently living in China
I'm more and more convinced that Peter Thiel is one of the most dangerous men in the world.
Listen to this 👇
He says that "the crazy stuff" done by the CIA and other agencies stops once it's exposed and processes are formalized. And the conclusion he
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Matheny also repeatedly called a regulatory regime that would require licenses for AI development and for companies to report when and how they’re training LLMs, as well as essentially ban open-source development of LLMs.
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learned more about this subtweet last night. jordan knew a lot more about it than me. trying not to think about it too much anymore.
Repressing a subtweet, here and in my mind. It's better if I just focus on my work right now.
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i have to stop seeing these videos of kids beating each other up, people dying, and war scene gore. they are every third post on my feed lately.
@elonmusk
this is seriously demonic what is going on
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a small set of unreliable data fuels the mainstream narrative — repeated in places like nyt, the atlantic, and the guardian — that the state's homeless are locals, despite the fact that this data, however unreliable, suggests the majority of the homeless population is from out of
Are Most of San Francisco's Homeless Even From the City?
mainstream reporting on sf and california homelessness is based on two reports afflicted by methodological flaws and ideological bias so extreme, they're impossible to take seriously
Mainstream reporting on SF’s homeless
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a sports bar, but for reality tv, would crush in LA or NY
there has to be some licensing issue that kills this idea, right? it's not like sports?
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in august, a trio of autonomous mini-submarines mapped a 37-mile region of the sea 70 miles off the coast of sf in a process that took just a few hours, instead of the months required by conventional sea mapping. in the process, the subs found they weren't alone. their high res
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in many cases misinformation is the blindly partisan, emotional rendering of communication about issues with which one is personally or tribally invested. in other words, much misinformation is the default state of information. therefore - and this might not be nice to hear but -
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engineers at uc berkeley made a solar powered, hand-held device that converts air into water, and used it to make 10 oz. of water a day in death valley ? wth
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The CA Coastal Commission's own staff recommended approving the Air Force's application to increase SpaceX launches from 36 to 50 per year, noting there's no evidence the increase would have an effect on wildlife. The CCC rejected the application 6-4 at a Oct. 10 hearing.
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an information environment effectively optimized for free speech and truthfulness will do two things: be immune to powerful influence and neutralize partisan lean in fact checking and content moderation
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uploaded myself on the
@piratewires
podcast to
@HeyGen_Official
and asked it to translate me to french. crazy. second half of the vid is the original clip where i'm speaking english
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Dude you can’t read or you’re lying. The first sentence of the piece says “whose early versions would establish a new government agency,” referring to the Frontier Model Division, which you yourself helped propose — and which was scrubbed out after last minute changes put it
@PirateWires
> a new government agency
Pirate Wires can't even get basic reporting right. I just read the first sentence and found a factual error. It doesn't create new agencies; reports go to the California Government Operations Agency which already exists. Read the bill if you're going to
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@war24182236
yeah because 'harm reduction' in SF is giving out lighters and foil.... in no way reduces harm, they're just keeping them addicted until they die
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so aoc is trying to impeach alito for the embarrassing upside-down flag beef between his wife and their millennial neighbors. got it
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checkmate
It is my understanding that MULTIPLE people who have talked directly with the board, including the new CEO (as reported below), have asked for evidence of Sam's wrongdoing and been given precisely nothing
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California's doom loop taxation (in the name of journalism)
Recently a CA state senator introduced bill SB 1327, which would tax Google 7.5% of its ad business yearly — based on its 2023 ad revenue, $18b would be collected — which would, in the short term, ultimately be used to
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DFW on using complicated language instead of plain language
"Why say 'prior to' rather than 'before'? Everybody knows what 'before' means, [and] it's fewer words... people who say 'at this time' rather than 'now,' why did they just take up a third of a second of my life making
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for maybe 6 months some time around 1998 yinyangs were the coolest thing for millennials, you don't even know
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so cozy in LA rn. got the rain going outside, wind shaking the trees. inside, fireplace on, slack open, about to rip call of duty...
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literally the same the day dems had a conference call with crypto execs where they denied crypto was being debanked, the fed arbitrarily issued an enforcement action against one of the last crypto-friendly banks in the US
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we debunked this study, it's basically misinformation. the way the it characterizes people as being "from" CA is not a commonsense way to describe being from a place — and no one in the real world would describe being from a place the way the study does.
for example, using the
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@henhaohank
@micsolana
@Cookie
@MattRosoff
yeah no idea how you would boilerplate copy a correction made because the writing was just extremely distasteful
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@PirateWires
full story is actually so much more upsetting than how the tweet describes it. link here —
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the george carlin ai standup, produced by youtube channel
@dudesypodshow
, has literally 10x the average viewcount of every other video on their channel, despite the fact that his daugher "slammed," "called out," and "blasted" the special. i hate meanposting but the media is
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they are reacting very normally to trump at mcdonalds on b*****y this morning
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zach emmanuel (
@zach_two_times
) publishes 3,500+ words on milk today in pirate wires. features interviews with
@tao_lin
and
@Babygravy9
Dairy farmers are committing suicide in record numbers. Dutch farmers are setting highways on fire. Vegan mobs are drilling holes in milk trucks. The Global Network on Extremism & Technology calls milk a far-right 'craze'.
@zach_two_times
on the milk wars:
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timnet updates (last 24 hours)
• gary marcus says "her power has gone to her head" after she calls judea pearl a racist
• timnet calls gary a white man with "unmatched audacity" who summoned his "awful followers with their blatantly racist comments" on her
• timnet says she
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on zerohedge today
@river_is_nice
and i discuss the future of ai-generated content with onlyfans creators
@Aella_Girl
,
@xFaeryPrincessx
, etc —
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i couldn't get any of the ai-written content detectors to work, nor could i figure out if the scary DAN and sydney screenshots are real — though i suspect some are definitely not. has interviews with
@jonst0kes
and
@gfodor
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always found this meme unseemly because implication is the person posting it is the high iq guy
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yes lfggg!!
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